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Welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, March 9th, the Keep It Dusty Edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's Invisibilia.

In New York, I'm joined by June Thomas, who's now the managing producer of Slate Podcasts. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, Hannah. Can I run something very random by you guys? Have you guys seen Mad Max? No. I never have. Oh, okay. So maybe you can't. So you can run it, but. You know, the Charlize Throne version? Yeah. Because I watched it on an airplane having heard it's all feminist and whatnot. So I turned it on on the airplane. So not feminist. She's not Max. She's not really the main character. And then they have these like Vogue models who kind of dominate the screen, who are the ladies. They're like the virgins. No, they're not the virgins, the opposite. They're like the breeders for the horrible guy, and they just take up a lot of the screen, and they really are like out of a fashion spread, despite the fact that they're going through mud and dirt. Anyway, if any listeners out there can explain to me, like, how is Matt, since you guys can't, how is Mad Max? Like, how did it get the reputation for being feminist? Like, merely because she's there and she drives the truck? I don't really get it. I just want to put a word in for the 100 on the CW, which is one of those, like, terrible things are happening shows. And even though all the people on it are gorgeous, they do look filthy, dirty and always, like, injured and covered in scars.

And so I want to give them some compliments for being so dirty and dusty and real looking.

Exactly. That's going to be our theme for today.

Keep it dusty. Exactly. That's going to be our theme for today. Keep it dusty.

All right. I'm pumped.

Keep it dusty.

Okay. So our three topics for today, the women's strike.

What is it for? What is it supposed to accomplish?

Second, happily ever after is no longer cool.

Movies and TVs are going through a soul mate backlash. We discuss. And finally, PMS, a new

debate about whether it's real. I can already hear you grumbling there in the background.

And then in our Slate Plus segment, June, do you want to say what we're going to talk about?

We're going to ask, is eating your steak well done, possibly with ketchup, sexist?

I thought it was just, is steak sexist. Because I kind of think, you know, steak itself is sexist.

Why don't we leave it for the conversation? You'll see, listeners. For our Slate Plus listeners, if you want to hear us discuss stake and whether it's sexist, you'll have to become a Slate Plus member for that extra segment. We'll do that at the end. All right, the women's strike. It is technically called a day without a woman. The strike was intended to draw attention to the invisible or underappreciated work that

women do and just generally kind of to protest Trump. Not kind of. It was to protest Trump.

So let me ask you guys, full disclosure here, we're recording on the day of the women's strike.

Today is Wednesday. We record on Wednesdays. You guys, in what manner would you say you are striking?

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